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billy

[bil-ee] / ˈbɪl i /




NOUN
goat
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We could see into that Holiday Inn through its plate glass windows and observe cops walking around its lobby with billy clubs, keeping a watchful eye on us.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

The billy club case was sent back to Benitez to review under the new Bruen analysis.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

The Yurok, who sought to defend their fishing rights and tribal sovereignty, faced off with officers in riot gear holding billy clubs and M-16 rifles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Mr. Roman in 2008 first publicized “the presence of two members of the New Black Panther Party — one carrying a billy club — outside of a Philadelphia polling site.”

From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2023

Three of something: three pigs, three bears, three brothers, three soldiers, three billy goats.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

Sweaty, swaying bodies surged across the square toward the Embassy, where tin-helmeted Egyptian police barred the way with billies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Little Rock came awake with a shock: a National Guard unit, 150 strong, with MIS, carbines and billies, churned up to the darkened high school in trucks, halftracks and jeeps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blindfolded by their helmets, billies more or less at the ready, they go through their maneuvers like a ruptured accordion.

From Time Magazine Archive

A pair of young billies butted each other with their horns, but most of the time the animals were perfectly orderly.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

At slaps the billies halt a blink, Till lasses strip their shoon: Wi’ faith an’ hope, an’ love an’ drink, They’re a’ in famous tune For crack that day.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns




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